BITTEN AND SLAIN
AMAZING MURDER STORY
WOMAN LOVES BUTCHER-BOY
LOS ANGELES TRIAL
(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) Reed. noon. LOS ANGELES, Thursday. rWO grotesque life-sized reproductions of the body of Myrtle Melius, whom the police believe was murdered by her butcher-boy friend, Leo Kelly, were displayed in the court where Kelly is now on trial for murder. the courtroom was filled with-*-knew of his wife’s clandestine affair
*omen. There were 94 abrasions on the Most of them, the police beJj- T e, were caused by bites from her 'generate sweetheart, frank Melius testified that he never
with the family butcher. The district attorney submitted that three love-letters from Kelly to Mrs. Melius indicated that the latter’s love was growing cold. The police theory is that this provided the motive for the killing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 1
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